Claire Brodrick
Partner
Claire specialises in consenting major energy and infrastructure projects, including offshore wind, utility scale solar, electricity interconnectors, electricity transmission and distribution network improvements and pipelines. Claire also has extensive experience of promoting compulsory purchase orders and compensation claims.
Claire's experience
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Advised Ørsted on its successful bid for Isle of Man Government seabed rights to develop an offshore wind farm, securing an agreement for lease in 2014. Since then, we have advised on the legislation, policy and regulatory processes required to enable the project, including the first Marine Infrastructure Consent application for the first of kind offshore wind development in the Isle of Man.
- United Kingdom
- Energy & Natural Resources
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Advising National Highways (formerly Highways England) on its successful application for, and subsequent implementation of, a development consent order (DCO) for one of its largest and most complex infrastructure projects: the A66 Northern Trans-Pennine project (A66 NTP), a critical east-west corridor for freight and business traffic and for tourism in the North of England also identified by the Government as a key pathfinder project to accelerate important infrastructure projects.
- United Kingdom
- Infrastructure
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Advising on the consenting for all offshore and onshore infrastructure for North Falls Offshore Wind farm, an extension to the Greater Gabbard offshore wind farm, which has a transmission entry capacity of up to 1GW.
- United Kingdom
- Renewables
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Advising the Environment Agency on consenting and compulsory acquisition aspects of a DCO application for the £500 million River Thames Scheme, the largest flood defence scheme in the UK.
- United Kingdom
- Infrastructure
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Advised Orsted on the Development Consent Order application and the onshore property elements of their proposed Hornsea Project Four offshore wind farm being developed off the coast of Yorkshire. Comprising up to 180 wind turbines, Hornsea Project Four is likely to be one of the world’s largest offshore wind farms.
- United Kingdom
- Energy & Natural Resources
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Advising North Falls Offshore Wind Limited on its proposed DCO application for its 500MW extension projects off the Norfolk, England coast.
- United Kingdom
- Energy & Natural Resources
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Advised Orsted Wind Power on its Development Consent Order applications for the 2.4 GW Hornsea Three Offshore Wind Farm project. Hornsea Three will add to Ørsted's Hornsea One and Hornsea Two wind farms off the North Norfolk coast. It will be one the world's largest wind farms with Hornsea Three alone capable of generating approximately 2,400MW of electricity - the average daily need of over 2 million UK homes.
- Cross-border
- Energy & Natural Resources
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Advising the project company on all consenting and environmental issues associated with the 350MW Cleve Hill Solar Park in Kent, England.
- £1.5m
- United Kingdom
- Energy & Natural Resources
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Advising on the consenting strategy on the South East Strategic Reservoir Option or Abingdon Reservoir and the associated Thames to Affinity Water Resource Transfer Scheme (SESRO). Following our successful appointment to Thames Water (TW)’s major projects panel in 2019, we were this year appointed to advise TW and Affinity Water (AW) jointly on the consenting of this proposed major water resource project, the largest in the UK.
- £640m
- United Kingdom
- Energy & Natural Resources
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Advised FAB Link Ltd on the compulsory purchase order securing onshore cable routes and other infrastructure for an electricity interconnector project between France and England.
- United Kingdom
- Energy & Natural Resources
Credentials
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2025Made Partner in Pinsent Masons
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2015Joined Pinsent Masons
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2008Qualified - England and Wales
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2003UCL - LLB Law Degree
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